| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, editors. The New Suburban History. (Historical Studies of Urban America.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. x, 289. $24.00.
Almost forty years ago, two academic conferences reflected as well as encouraged the excitement attracting scholars to "the new urban history." The 1968 Yale Conference on the Nineteenth-Century Industrial City resulted a year later in the publication of Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History, edited by Stephan Thernstrom and Richard Sennett (1969). Three days of meeting during June 1970 in Madison, Wisconsin, produced Leo F. Schnore's edited volume, The New Urban History: Quantitative Explorations by American Historians (1975). Nineteenth-Century Cities in particular attempted to connect history and sociology and emphasized the everyday life of ordinary people. To a great extent, it established social mobility studies as a cottage industry for the new urban historians and gave little attention to issues of government, politics, and power.	1
In February 2004, scholars gathered at Princeton University to participate in a conference on "City Limits: New Perspectives in the History of American Suburbs," which produced the volume under review. The meeting showcased the latest work on suburban America and did not shy away from the topics that had received short shrift many years before; it also recognized the importance of suburbs for the understanding of modern America, a central tenet of the book. As editors Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue emphatically point out, in 1990 a majority of Americans lived in suburbs while forty years earlier only twenty-five percent did. By the last decade of the twentieth century, the United States was indeed a suburban nation.	. . .

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